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Transmitted 21 January 2013. Posted 22 February 2013. Updated 29 May 2022

On 21 January 2013 I took part in a panel discussion on the Islam Channel, on their Politics & Media show.

The presenter was John Rees and the participants were:

• Alice Sachrajda, Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research
• Awale Olad, Public Affairs Officer, the Migrants' Rights Network
• Robert Oulds, Director, The Bruges Group (on the telephone line)
• Myself, appearing as Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum

The subject of the entire 24 minute discussion was what would it would mean for Britain when Romanians and Bulgarians became free to move to Britain.

I took the opportunity to explain why the EU's rules regarding the free movement of labour benefit all European citizens, including ours. I also reminded people not to swallow the "lump of work" fallacy, which implies there is a fixed amount of work in the economy, so if immigrants take jobs, there are less jobs for everyone else.

You can watch the programme below. [Unfortunately since this page was created, the video has changed status and can no longer be watched. I have left the page up in case it becomes available again in future.]